Tom Brady threw two of his three first-half touchdown passes to
Randy Moss, and Laurence Maroney rushed for a career-high 156
yards as the Patriots coasted past the Dolphins, 28-7, at
Gillette Stadium.

In the process, the Patriots became the first 15-0 team in NFL
history and now stand one win away from the first perfect
regular-season mark since the 1972 Dolphins. It is the most
wins by the franchise in history.

"It's great to be 15-0. I thought it was a great first half and
our defense played really well," Brady said. "In the second
half, we didn't execute as well as we wanted but fortunately we
played well enough in the first half to create a big enough of a
lead. The defense played great."

New England also matched its own NFL record by winning its 18th
consecutive regular-season contest, tying the record it set in
the 2003-04 seasons. The Patriots can shatter that mark and
complete a perfect season when they visit the New York Giants on
Saturday night.

"It's good to win and we're not really too hung up on that,"
Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "We'll get ready for next
week. We'll take one week at a time and get ready for next
week."

Maroney needed just 14 carries to register his second straight
100-yard performance and third of the season, highlighted by a
pair of runs over 50 yards.

The Dolphins (1-14) could not build on the momentum of their
only victory of the season last week and finished the season
winless on the road in eight tries.

Brady, Moss and the Patriots showed early on their intention of
putting the game out of reach early.

After forcing the Dolphins to punt, the Patriots took their
first drive and marched 70 yards in 10 plays, culminating with
an 11-yard touchdown pass from Brady to Moss.

Five plays earlier, Brady just missed Moss when he overthrew the
Pro Bowl-bound receiver in the right corner of the end zone.

Maroney's first big run of the day, a 51-yard scamper through
the middle of the Dolphins' defense on the first play of their
third drive, led to New England's next touchdown. The play
stood momentarily as the longest run of his career.

Brady and Moss hooked up for their second touchdown in the
second quarter from 1 yard out following an interference call on
Travis Daniels, resulting in a 13-yard penalty.

For Moss, it was his 21st touchdown catch, one short of Jerry
Rice's 1987 single-season record for wide receivers.

"I'm not speaking for Tom, I'm speaking for myself, this is a
team," Moss said. "There's no individual play here. I think
how Coach prepares us week in and week out, he wants us as a
team to do whatever we can to win the game. If the touchdown
record for a wide receiver is broken, it's broken, if it's not
it's not. As long as we keep doing what we're doing and keep
winning."

Maroney bettered his own mark on the next drive when he used a
crushing block by fullback Heath Evans and sprung off left
tackle for a 59-yard touchdown that put the Patriots ahead,
21-0.

Brady and the Patriots went back to the air for their fourth
touchdown, a 48-yard strike to Jabar Gaffney down the left
sideline that gave the Patriots a 28-0 advantage.

"We don't really think about the records while we're out there
playing football," Gaffney said. "We just keep playing football
the whole time and all that stuff will take care of itself."

It was Brady's 48th touchdown pass, leaving him one shy of
Peyton Manning's mark set in 2004. He finished 18-of-33 for 215
yards with two interceptions and two fumbles.

"It's exciting for the team," Brady said. "A lot of those team
record are fun, most points scored and so forth. That's pretty
cool considering the history of the NFL."

New England's defense got into the act just before halftime when
linebacker Tedy Bruschi broke up Cleo Lemon's pass on
4th-and-goal at the 4-yard line with 17 seconds remaining in the
second to take their four-touchdown lead to the locker room.

"Fifteen-and-0 is nice," Bruschi said. "It feels good, just
like I said last week, 14-and-0 was nice and felt good. To get
another one is great. We're going to feel good about it for the
next couple of days until we come back on Wednesday and go back
to work."

The Patriots seemed a lock to shatter the league's single-season
scoring record at halftime, but failed to put up a point in the
second half and remain six shy of eclipsing the mark of 556 set
by the Minnesota Vikings in 1998.

Brady, looking to add to his numbers and those of Moss, was
intercepted twice in the third quarter while trying to find his
star receiver. The second of those interceptions led to Miami's
next prime scoring chance.

On 4th-and-goal at the New England 1, quarterback Cleo Lemon
scrambled to his right and headed for the front pylon but ran
out of bounds and failed to get the ball inside the marker for
the score.

"They made big plays in the first half and that was obviously
the difference in the first half because a lot of good things
were done," Dolphins coach Cam Cameron said. "We get some
turnovers and weren't able to capitalize on those. We get
opportunities with goal to go and aren't able to execute and get
the job done. As I told the team, we're going to look at the
tape, there were plenty of opportunities there."

Miami finally broke through when Lemon threw to a 21-yard
touchdown pass to Greg Camarillo late in the third quarter,
cutting the deficit to 28-7.

In a season of historical accomplishments, the Patriots set
another team mark Sunday when they won their sixth divisional
game, completing the first perfect AFC East record in team
history.

"It would be hard to single anybody out," Belichick said. "We
had certainly a lot of production offensively. Our defense came
up with a couple of big stops in the red area. I'm happy to
win. It's good to win the division, sweep the division."